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DRIVING WITH MY BLINKER ON
A nominee for the
50th Georgia Author
of the Year Award in Poetry

The poems in DRIVING WITH MY BLINKER ON are about hopes, fears, dreams, aspirations, failures, disappointments, successes, human weaknesses and strengths, relationships, maturing, growing old, and facing life with courage and humor while driving with a "blinker on."

MORNING
Rain has fallen all night
in hushed whispers of silent tears.
More tears are in the clouds

waiting in the quiet of first light.
Ghostly mist hovers over the lake, and
gray fog shrouds the hillside orchard,

the grass below frosted white.
Lamps will stay lit this morning
in an attempt to banish the dark

as black, as opaque as anthracite,
in an attempt to ignite healing
in a home still reeling, still mourning

an abruptly extinguished light.

INEXACT
You were with me
at the beginning of spring.
We raced the hare,
lived verdant, inexact.

Now you are with me
at the end of winter.
We whisper to the tortoise
we are slower than he.

And it was all a fragment
of an inexact moment.

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BREAD AND ROSES, TOO

The female mystique, from childhood through maturity, is captured in the pages of "Bread and Roses, Too." Among the book's themes are a woman's hopes, fears, frustrations, regrets, vulnerabilities, strengths, and victories. The book also covers a woman's never-ending struggle to accommodate men, friends, and family.

The poetry is easy to read. It is written in a variety of styles, from traditional to free verse. Each poem captures one aspect of a woman's life. Female readers will recognize themselves and their friends in many of the poems, while male readers will recognize their female relatives and friends.

CHARITY: I WANT TO DANCE
I want to dance,
To express joy in motion,
To fling my limbs about,
To snap my fingers, kick
Clap, stomp, and shout.

My father and his god
For girls and women decree
Long hair and long skirts,
Prohibit make-up and TV,
Forbid dancing.

I want to dance,
To swing and sway,
To twirl and whirl,
To leap through the air,
To defy gravity.

My father and his god
Forbid dancing.
Dancing, they say, is a sin,
An open invitation
For the devil to move in.

I want to dance,
To express joy in living,
To fling my limbs about,
To swing, to sway
Without fear and trembling.

I do not understand
My father's definition of sin.
Unaquainted with the devil,
I would never invite him in.
I just want to dance.




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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
A nominee for the 47th Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.

The poems in EYE OF THE BEHOLDER are about the nature of perception-- how we view ourselves and others and how they view us and how we interact with each other and the world because of our perceptions.

OLD FOOLS
They have celebrated each other
for thirty years-
to them it seems like thirty days.

She kisses his receding hair line,
hugs his thickening waist.
He stokes her gray-streaked hair,
nuzzles the laugh lines on her face.

They kiss when they part,
hug when they reunite.
They dine and dance, and afterward
stroll arm-in-arm in moonlight.

Their eyes connect and reconnect
in crowded rooms, bride and groom
sharing secret smiles abloom
with passion and promise.

Their children cringe and mutter,
Old fools.
But strangers smile and murmer,
How cool.




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GREEN THUMBS
A nominee for the 48th Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.

"Green Thumbs:" Traditional and free verse and haiku about gardeners and gardening, conservation and ecology, common names and botanical nomenclature, nature, botany, and agrology.


INVASIVE GENEROSITY
He prides himself on being a gardener
who knows each and every plant.
So, he looks again and says it is,
without doubt, the variegated tigerscant.
"I can say, without fear of contradiction,"
he says, "this is an easy-to-grow plant."
Then, with misguided generosity, he offers,
"I'll dig up a sprig for you to transplant."




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